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Chief Conductor Emmanuel Villaume led a sparkling contribution to the Year of Czech Music, pairing rarely heard items with popular standards.

The French horn is the real winner in Bremen as Ben Goldscheider continues to expand the horn repertoire and bring his instrument to a wider audience. 

This X-rated programme brought numerous children to the Royal Festival Hall... with plenty of orchestral thrills for them to enjoy.

Canellakis is an elegant conductor who invests so much in the music and inhabits its lilts and thrills with her whole demeanour.

James Conlon lead the CSO in a selection of four rarely heard works.

What a rare and uplifting experience it is to hear a performance of such quality, depth of feeling and maturity as that given of Brahms Piano Concerto no.1 in D minor by Krystian Zimerman, the LSO and Simon Rattle. 

The composers Debussy, Dvořák, Schoenberg and Elgar and aren’t often associated with each other, but they featured together in the first of three concerts in Carnegie Hall with Sir Simon Rattle and the Berlin Philharmonic. The works on the program, it turned out, all dated from the 1890s and all were program music.

Outside, it was as cold as Narnia. But as a lone flute piped the haunting opening phrases of Prélude à l’après-midi d’un faune, we were transported to the warmth of a dreamy afternoon. We were off on a journey around European folk-tales and legends at the end of the 19th century.

Bezauberndes spielt das recreation – Großes Orchester Graz im Stefaniensaal, unterstützt vom Solisten Andrei Ioniță.

Die junge Dirigentin Karina Canellakis sprang kurzfristig für den erkrankten Nikolaus Harnoncourt ein und begeisterte bei Styriarte mit Enthusiasmus und einer düsteren Interpretation.